The South western news., 1887-11-16
MYSTERIES OF A DAY.
CURIOUS THINGS WE FIND RE
CORDED IN THE PAPERS.
Perpetual Motion-The Autograph
Fiend-A Railway Intentional
Paris Workman. et0, etc.

fair way to carry the election owing
largely to tho looks Of n ,puLar young
citizen. -Four temperance girls deter
mined to capture him, and they did it
One of them asked him to step behind
the Court House, that she might tell
him q secret, and the others followed
with four chairs. In these the conspi-
rators seated themselves SO closely
around the Young man that he could not
get out without using force, and, being
too gallant to do this, he was kept a
prisoner until the polls closed, and the
temperance people had won the day.
YOUNG Mr.. Witherspoon of Birming-
ham, Conn, is the newest inventor who
thinks that he has found the secret of
perpetual motion. His published WORDS
show the state of his mind, if he is
rightly reported. 'I mean to say that
I have invented an engine or motor,
which, without any supply of power
from without, can not only maintain its
own motion indefinitely, or as long as
the material of which it is made lasts,
but can also be applied to nj, kinds of
machinery, and therefore do external
work. To be more explicit, my machine
means device for creating power or
energy without corresponding expendi-
ture of energy
A PARIS workingman named Barthes
asked his wife to look down we'll, and
as she did so pushed her in. When
she came to the surface and screamed
for help he let down bucket, and she
clinging to it, drew her up, making her
think he was geing to save her. When
nearly to the top he let her drop again
into the well, and, as she still refused
to die, he flung large stones upon her.
The neighbors interfered, and one of
them put ladder down and brought
the woman, still alive, up on it, the
husband, meantime, doing everything
in his power to hinder the rescuers. He
was sentenced to fifteen years penal
servitude.
IT has been calculated that on the av-
erage each man who attains the age of
three score and ten consumes during the
course of his life twenty wagon-loads of
food, solid and LIQUID. At four tons to
the wagon this would correspond to an
average Of about hundred ounces of
food per day, or say some 100 ounces per
day during adult life, and eight ounces
during infancy and youth. Most mod
ern doctors agree in regarding 20ounces
of food per day, corresponding to five
Or six half -pints of liquid food and
seven or eight pounds of solid food, as
in excess of the real daily requirements
of healthy man or woman.
ERAsTUs WnMAN has conceived the
idea of erecting thousand cottages on
Staten Island, ranging in value from
1000 to $4,000, to be sold to New
Workers OF others for the purpose of
founding a colony, and building up
business for his railroad On payment
OF small amount of money Mr.. Wiman
intends to undertake the building Of q
'.a-, acc. .JCiE. r?o~t~nges for the
deferred payments and giving 10 Ike
purchaser a sort of life insurance con-
tract by which in the event of his death
before concluding lis payments the
property shall revert absolutely to his
legal heirs, free of all debt.
THE cholera scare in Sicily is so great
that in some towns the physicians and
chemists took to flight, and had to be
pursued by police and brought back, as
they could not be spared At Villabota
a postman was shot by mob, who be-
lieyed the epidemic was spread through
the letters he delivered. A number of
people who were flying from Palermo to
Monreale were kept from entering by
the inhabitants with guns, and were
compelled to camp in the field; while
little boy of years, driven by hunger.
attempting to reach the town, was
stabbed to death and his body burned
by some Of the villagers.
A FRENCH lieutenant of hussars left
the army to marry girl who was too
poor to bring him the dowry n woman
has to have to marry French officer
He went to work for $50 month; his
wife fell i'll, he ran into debt, and final
ly couldn't get anybody to trust him for
milk, which was the only thing that
would keep his wife alive. So he stole
some milk, got caught at it, and although
when arraigned the magistrate let him
go, his wife was just dying when he got
again to her bedside. He waited for
her last sigh, and then lay down by her
side and blew out his brains.
EIGHTEEN hundred men struck in the
collieries in Durham county, England.
because the proprietors had recovered
nominal damages in an action against
several men who had quit work without
notice on account of some dispute in
one OF the mines. The men would not
pay, and six of them were sent to iail
in default The strikers refused to 90
back until their comrades were released
One night some stranger went to tbe
jail and paid the fines of the men, who
were at once set free. The men held
meeting next day nddecided to go back
to work.
JOHN BUCKLEY of Meridan, Cent,
caught swapping turtle aid took it to
the central telephone Office, where he
purposed killing it with electricity. He
let the turtle snap at ore end of
o wire, put another wire beneath it's
shell, and turned on the full strength of
the current. He AYERS that he "heard
the current go through it, making a
noise like a small planning machine,
and he left the turtle for dead. The
next morning he found the turtle walk
ing around and swapping at wires, as
though it wanted another taste of the
current.
In LETTER from Cabul, Mr.. ]. S.
Pynes, an Englishman, who has been
looking after the construction of the
Amlr's workshops, writes: ''Abdur
RahMan Is a man whose word must not
be disputed. | saw a curious piece of
architecture here the other day. n cbast
ly tnumphal arch made by artisans of
the place with the heads of 200 prison